How drugs such as adrenalin do primarily one thing – in this case, increase the heart rate – now makes more sense to scientists.“Any time you get a sudden jolt, adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine) is why your heart rate goes up,” says Dr. Nevin A. Lambert, a biophysicist at the Medical College of Georgia. “If your heart is about to stop and the doctor administers epinephrine, that is what he or she is trying to do.”>>> Discuss This Story
